Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool prognostic value in older hospitalised patients: a prospective multicentre study.
Ruth D PiersIsabelle De BrauwerHilde BaeyensAnja VelgheLineke HensEllen DeschepperSéverine HenrardMichel De PauwNele Van Den NoortgateMarie De Saint-HubertPublished in: BMJ supportive & palliative care (2021)
SPICT may be used as a tool to identify older hospitalised patients at risk of dying within 1 year and who may benefit from a palliative care approach including advance care planning. The prognostic accuracy of SPICT is better in older patients admitted at the acute geriatric versus the CU.
Keyphrases
- palliative care
- advanced cancer
- community dwelling
- middle aged
- advance care planning
- physical activity
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- liver failure
- prognostic factors
- community acquired pneumonia
- intensive care unit
- drug induced
- hepatitis b virus
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- patient reported
- aortic dissection